Research Methods for Tourism Students (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Durbarry, Ramesh

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a balanced coverage of both qualitative and quantitative methods, accompanying students throughout the process of selecting a research topic and specifying research questions, aims and objectives.This is an essential resource to tourism students and will also be of interest to researchers in any social science subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351336192
• Artikelnr.: 50516539

Autorenporträt

Ramesh Durbarry is currently the Director General of the Civil Service College, Mauritius. He was appointed Professor in Tourism and Deputy Director at the Amity Institute of Higher Education, Mauritius. He has worked at the University of Bedfordshire as Head of Department, Marketing, Tourism & Hospitality. He was the CEO of the UOM Trust Business School in Mauritius and has also worked at the University of Nottingham as a Research Fellow, Lecturer in Research Methods of Tourism and Travel and then as Associate Professor in Tourism Management/Marketing. After successfully developing the School of Public Sector Policy and Management at the University of Technology, Mauritius, he was instrumental in the creation of the School of Sustainable Development and Tourism. His research focuses on tourism and travel, tourism taxation, price sensitivity of tourism and the impact of the tourism sector on the various economies, with a keen interest on climate change and sustainable tourism. He has published various articles in leading international journals and has contributed chapters in international books. He has worked on various projects for organisations such as WTO, UNWTO, EU, UNCTAD, VisitScotland and EMDA, among others, and on tourism destinations such as Malta and Cyprus.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Philosophical Disputes in Research
Chapter 3 The Research Process
Chapter 4 Developing a Research Proposal
Chapter 5 Reviewing the Literature
Chapter 6 Research Ethics
Chapter 7 Developing a Conceptual Framework
Chapter 8 Qualitative Research: An Application to Tourism
Chapter 9 Quantitative Research
Chapter 10 Mixed Methods and Triangulation
Chapter 11 The Internet as a Research Tool and E-Method: Netnography
Chapter 12 Online Surveys
Chapter 13 Sampling
Chapter 14 Analysing Qualitative Data
Chapter 15 Grounded Theory and Data Analysis
Chapter 16 Analysing Qualitative Data Using NVivo
Chapter 17 Analysing Quantitative Data
Chapter 18 Analysing Quantitative Data Using SPSS
Chapter 19 Writing the Research Report
Chapter 20 Research Presentation